8,157 Quotes About Science

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.